With the introduction of the digital printer and the possibility of polishing glazes with the lapping technique, European and American ceramic producers have considerably reduced the production of porcelain stoneware tiles.
Expensive and difficult to produce, the full-body porcelain stoneware tile struggling to keep up with the more agile and often even most beautiful glazed tile.
Despite this, technical porcelain stoneware slabs and tiles are still indispensable for use in high traffic areas, such as stations, airports, public buildings.
But why are they so important?
Despite the strong aggression of wear, the technical product does not lose its design and the colours remain unchanged, while in the case of glazed tiles, in the event of a strong wearing action, the substrate tends to emerge, making them unusable.
For this reason, the need to sand full bodied slabs and tiles is growing again. So, after 25 years of work and research in the creation of tools for squaring and sanding, the Premier laboratories have developed the satellite head.
What are the benefits of satellite head?
By choosing PREMIER satellite heads on a lapping line, replacing only the tool, it is transformed from a simple lapping machine into a calibrating / sanding / lapping machine.
Currently, many lapping machines have been equipped, by Premier, with satellite heads that are certainly faster and cheaper, for polishing glazed tiles. By exploiting the high kinetic energy of the satellite and replacing the resin tool on an elastic support used for lapping, with one with a rigid metal binder, you get a powerful calibrator capable of roughing and smoothing every slab and technical tile.
By adopting the PREMIER satellite heads on a lapping line, the old mono-product line is transformed into a new, versatile line that can either calibrate and smooth porcelain stoneware and lapping glazed tiles and slabs, with just the replacement of the tool, from elastic resinoid to rigid metallic.
Furthermore, with this simple and innovative solution, each ceramic manufacturer is able to differentiate itself from digital massification, manufacturing and polishing its own unique and unmistakable full-body polished porcelain stoneware.
INNOVATION BY PREMIERLAB
